Equality

Gender stereotypes and beliefs in male superiority are still freely expressed in the U.S. When girls get social cues to doubt their abilities that shows up in measurable ways. Just check the latest Global Gender Gap report.

With the hashtag #SheWillBe, the new initiative focuses on improving young women’s access to jobs, health care and education, taking into account how race, gender and sexual identity differently impact women.

As a schoolgirl she had to pick up the teacher’s shoes and stand outside the classroom. Now Sabitha Koraga is the inspirational figure in a film that in July will start being shown in government and government-aided schools.

In China, feminism made strides for many years when other types of political discourse was discouraged. But now the government is methodically isolating independent voices. This time there is no special pass for women.

Here’s where you find women relishing their fight for equality whether that means skirmishing against outlawed strip clubs or waging huge job walkouts. The exuberance of the U.N. panel befitted a country that raises a global beacon for girls and women.

In a first for a State of the Union address, President Obama put a central focus on the role of women in the economy. But his message about needing child care as a national economic priority wasn’t just for women. It was for everybody.

Now that Arquette has called out the naked emperor, the question is, who will provide the leadership to harness the groundswell of energy released by her battle cry? This is the moment to push for the ERA.

“I feel that I am a citizen with a quarantined identity. I cannot pass it on to anyone,” says a woman married to a man who is not Jordanian. The government’s late-December reform disappointed her and other activists.

“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” brings second-wave feminism dramatically back to life without any false sainthood. It links all of us together and intimates that it’s time for us third- and fourth-wave feminists to take to the streets, too.

We declare that the bodies of our brown and black girls and women are not just collateral damage in places such as Ferguson, Mo. And we demand more from the recent White House report on women and girls of color, which is still no match for the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

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It is being hailed as the most progressive state policy so far, going further than New Jersey, California and Rhode Island in various respects. But its showcase potential won’t be tested until the program gets going in 2018.